knowledge: this ignorance is partly owing to their inability
to comprehend the technical and anatomical terms, contained in the treatises
of midwifery which have been published. The following sheets I hope, will
( in a measure) remove that difficulty.
Another reason of their ignorance of themselves is,
a mistaken idea, that the theory of midwifery requires a great deal of
study, when plainly taught; whereas the principal business of a midwife
in natural labours (which happen 99 times in 100) is only to press the
palm of her left hand against the perinæum* during the birth; which
will be proved in the first part of this work.
Though this is really true, I do not assert it as an apology for the
ignorance of some midwives; on the contrary, I 
